Back in '77 I was reading the entertainment section of the Seattle PI and came across a show that weekend that might be fun to check out. The group was The Ramones and it was at the Olympic Hotel in the classy Georgia Room. I had never heard of punk rock or The Ramones. The day of the concert I had been presented my Eagle Scout award at an afternoon ceremony. I get home after the ceremony get cleaned up, put on a polo shirt with my bell bottoms and Famolare platform shoes (my suburban punkass outfit), jump in my '67 Goat and head downtown. When I arrived at the Olympic Hotel my world was immediately turned upside down. Holy crap, my imagined vision of punk rock was quickly snuffed out. The line into the hotel looked like the casting call for a Dracula flick. For the first time in my life I felt like the freak. Even though I stood out from the rest I new this was something I had to see. It turned out to be a life changing event. The music was the loudest and fastest I had ever witnessed. It was so loud that my brain was sonically damaged which intern caused me to almost slam my GTO into a jersey barrier on the way home. To give you an idea of just how loud it was I worked security at Scorpions/Iron Maiden concert in the early 80' at the UW, standing in font of the stage behind the security fence where the back of my head was positioned about 2' from the speaker stack with the gigantic woofer at ear level through the whole concert. You would probably think this would be the loudest music a human being could possibly be exposed to. Wrong,wrong, wrong! OMFG, the Romones had their amps turned up as loud as Nigel's amp in Spinal Tap. If you want to interrogate gitmo prisoners play some Ramones with the amp at the 11 setting.

Here is a download page for a Ramones concert recorded the night before the Olympic Hotel concert at Rocker Tavern in Aberdeen WA (dreary lumberjack town and hometown of Kurt Cobain). You will need 7 zip or another program that can unzip RAR files. There is an interview where this chick that is friends with the band named Arlene talks about the show. She was Johnny's first girlfriend and later married Joey's brother Mickey. Good stuff, very rare recording.

Awesome! Big Supertramp fan. I had a quad 8 track deck in my GTO and played Crime of the Century all the way up all of the time. Still have two or three of their audiophile LP's that I pull out and crank up just like the old days.

Awesome! Big Supertramp fan. I had a quad 8 track deck in my GTO and played Crime of the Century all the way up all of the time. Still have two or three of their audiophile LP's that I pull out and crank up just like the old days.

Those were the days ! I still have cassette tapes of them and tape deck that works !

Also saw them live at the Gorge in George WA back in the 90's and obviously without Roger Hodgson. They were three hours late, played for one hour with no encores then shut off the lights then flew off to their next ripoff gig. I wasn't completely disappointed though, they did play all the faves. Will try to see Roger the next time he's in town, by the looks of the video you posted he sounds better than ever. He was really the voice of the band anyway.

Good EvenIng..Coming back at you Friday, primary Date Night, on RE RadioWhat a Wonderful Adventure ... I have listened and watched everything.. we are all so varied and yet a Love in the Music that touched us all over our years... keep them coming .. i just have a couple or so tonight that went through my mind.. the first one was from John Lee Hooker.. as a young man/kid growing up in what was was "the Country" then, no longer..John Lee would show up across the field to visit friends and play on the front porch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oz66xHeaaM&list=PLCC5A36C75FDC57BA this was long ago .. I will be 66 next month... be aware this forward might take you to more of his songs

and the first song on a 45 that made me dance in wild abandon by myself..